Does anyone else feel as if it’s over when it comes to really owning your own things?
As of now:
- You don’t have the option of having a phone with decent specs and replaceable parts
- You have to have really good knowledge in tech to have private services that are on par with what the big companies offer
- You have to put up with annoying compatibility issues if you install a custom ROM on your android phone
- You cannot escape apps preventing you from using them if you root your device
- Cars are becoming SaaS bullcrap
- Everything is going for a subscription model in general
And now Google is attempting to implement DRM on websites. If that goes through, Firefox is going to be relegated to privacy conscious websites (there aren’t many of those). At this point, why even bother? Why do I go to great lengths at protecting my privacy if it means that I can’t use most services I want?
It sucks because the obvious solution is for people to move away from these bullshit companies and show that they actually care about their privacy. Even more important is to actually PAY for services they like instead of relying on free stuff. I’m not optimistic not just because the non privacy conscious side is lazy, but because my side is greedy. I mean one of the most popular communities on lemmy is “piracy” which makes it all the more reasonable for companies not to listen to privacy conscious people.
I wouldn’t say that this is the endgame but in this trajectory, privacy is gone before 2030.
I didn’t understand when everyone jumped on Facebook messenger instead of just using their phone’s built in text messaging and I still don’t. It’s like people crave spying or something…
Because on a lot of countries (like mine), text messages (SMS), are paid or very limited. For example, I only have 2k per month. And remember that some texts, can count as 3 SMSs depending on the number of characters they have.
Since Android is the most used OS here, apps like WhatsApp and Messenger are the default ones. They could/should move Signal/Telegram, but that’s another subject.
That at least explains your situation, it doesn’t explain the people around me in this country. Everyone rushed to download those apps, despite knowing that Facebook analyzes everything.